About the book: year / For the first time in the last hundred years, a book is being published devoted to such an important topic in the history of Russia as “Moscow and the Romanovs.” The influence of the tsars and emperors from the Romanov dynasty on the development of Moscow is difficult to overestimate. At the same time, the Mother See played an equally decisive role in the fate of the Romanovs themselves, becoming for them, in essence, a family fiefdom. Here the first king of the dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich, was born and crowned king, then his son Alexei Mikhailovich, and then his crowned descendants - Feodor, Peter, Elizabeth, Alexander... All the Romanov autocrats were crowned in Moscow, and a number of them found their last refuge here .The reader will learn the most interesting historical details: how the election of Mikhail Fedorovich to the kingdom took place, for which Peter I deprived Moscow of its capital status, how the enlightened era of Catherine II affected Moscow, what was the policy of Alexander I towards Moscow in 1812, how Nicholas I tried to extinguish the opposition of Moscow and with what eyes its Third Department looked at the city, how the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov was celebrated, etc. The book also tells about the iconic Moscow buildings and attractions associated with the Romanov dynasty, and there are many of them: the Assumption Cathedral, the Novospassky Monastery , boyar chambers on Varvarka, Triumphal Arch, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow University, Bolshoi Theater, Noble Assembly, English Club, Nikolaevsky Station, Alexander III Museum of Fine Arts, Manege and much more... The book was written based on the study of a large number of historical sources and equipped with a name index. Author - famous writer and historian Alexander Vaskin.